Name: Soldiers in Zimbabwe's Liberation War
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Ngwabi Bhebe

Soldiers in Zimbabwe's Liberation War

$29.99

These two companion volumes on Soldiers and Society give new perspectives on Zimbabwe's liberation struggle.

This work is an attempt to look at some of the realities of Zimbabwe's liberation war and at what happened afterwards, rather than at the comfortable myths. Both heroic and terrible deeds are recorded.

Zimbabwe: University of Zimbabwe Publications

Daniel Mkude

Higher Education in Tanzania

$29.99

Examines institutional transformation in the University of Dar es Salaam.

The Partnership for Higher Education in Africa commissioned case studies of higher education provision in Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa, as part of its effort to stimulate enlightened, equitable, and knowledge-based national development, and to provide guides to understanding.

The University of Dar es Salaam has put in place measures to stop the process of decay and better fulfil its core functions - the unity and commitment within its leadership attracting both government and donors. This text explores the attributes needed to harvest the fruits of the reform.

In association with Partnership for Higher Education in Africa; Tanzania: Mkuki na Nyota

Paul Richards

Fighting for the Rain Forest

$29.99

Examines the war in Sierra Leone as a crisis of modernity.

Do small wars in Africa manifest a 'new barbarism'?
What appears as random, anarchic violence is no such thing. The terrifying military methods of of Sierra Leone's soldiers may not fir conventional western models of warfare,but they are rational and effective nonetheless. The war must be understood partly as a 'performance', in which techniques of terror compensate for lack of equipment.

PAUL RICHARDS is Professor of Technology and Agrarian Development, Wageningen University

Published in association with the International African Institute

David Cook, Michael Okenimkpe

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

$36.95

Extensive use has been made of Ngugi's Detained: A Writer's Prison Diary

This interpretation of the work of Ngugi wa Thiong'o discusses his philosophy, writing style, social and political focus, and ultimate vision and aspirations. Each work of fiction is examined in depth, and there is an evaluation of Ngugi's standing as a writer and social figure. Separate chapters cover each of Ngugi's novels, from The River Between and Weep Not, Child to Matigari , as well as his drama and short stories. There is alsoan examination of his social commentaries in the popular press, to which the early formation of his ideological position can be traced.

Kenya: EAEP

Thomas J. Bassett, Donald Crummey

African Savannas

$36.95

This work outlines the importance of local knowledge for understanding environmental change.

African farmers and herders modify landscapes in far more subtle and unexpected ways than commonly depicted in environment and development debates. This interdisciplinary collection uses collaborative research from the major savanna regions which stretch across Africa to make its case, and covers topics such as land users and landscapes, pastoral ecologies and policy, producers and resources. Environmental thinking about Africa is dominated by narratives of degradation and chaos. The contributors demonstrate that the empirical foundations of such long-held views are shaky at best.

Emmanuel Ngara

Ideology and Form in African Poetry

$29.95

Explores the relationship between the social vision of poets and their styles.

Emmanuel Ngara evaluates the ability of poets to communicate with their readers. His previous studies on style and ideology made a considerable impact and he has now used the same technique to help students come to terms with thedemanding question of poetic style.

Keith Hart

Why Angola Matters

$29.99

Illustrated throughout.

This volume examines the history of Angola since independence in 1975, and in particular the fact that the country has known only one year of peace in that time. The contributions come from a conference held in Cambridge.

Olive Senior

Working Miracles

$29.99

Intended as an introductory sourcebook, Olive Senior provides a background to Caribbean literature, politics and society.

This text takes a multidisciplinary approach to the study of women and gender issues in the Caribbean. Olive Senior, using her imaginative skills as a poet, has written a readable books based on a substantial academic examinationof women's lives and work in fourteen countries of the Caribbean. In addition she uses examples from literature and popular culture, adn the voices of the women themselves.

Caribbean: ISER, University of the West Indies

Adeola James

In Their Own Voices

$29.99

Interviews with a selection of African women writers.

This book makes a strong and compelling statement about the position of women writers and women in contemporary Africa using the words of the writers themselves', says Dennis Duerden, the author of the earlier African WritersTalking.

Mukulika Banerjee

The Pathan Unarmed

$29.99

Examines the rise in the inter-war years of a Gandhian influenced non-violent movement in the North West Frontier.

The Pukhtun (Pathan) of the North West Frontier are regarded as a warrior people. Yet in the inter-war years there arose a Muslim movement, the Khudai Khidmatgar (Servants of God), which adopted military forms of organizations anddress, but which also drew its inspiration from Gandhian principles of non-violent action and was dedicated to an Indian nationalism rather than communal separatism.
Virtually erased from the national historiography of post-partition Pakistan, where they now reside, the ageing veterans of the movement are still highly respected by younger Pukhtun. This is an account of rank and file members of the Khudai Khidmatgar, describing why they joined, what they did, and how they perceived the ethics and aims of the movement. It attempts to answer the questions of how notoriously violent Pukhtun were converted to an ethic of non-violence. It finds the answer rooted in the transformation of older social structures, Islamic revisionism and the redefinition of the traditional code of honour.

South Asia excluding India: OUP

Series Editors: Wendy James & N.J. Allen

Roger C. Riddell

Manufacturing Africa

$49.95

The team of authors see this book as a contribution to lifting the standard of debate and towards restarting in-depth comparative research.

Concentrates on the seven countries which between them (excluding South Africa) account for 60 per cent of total manufacturing in sub-Saharan Africa. The contributors look at the role of manufacturing and industry in the development of these countries, arguing that future prosperity could be enhanced by a three-pronged approach to industrialisation.
Published in association with the ODI

Roger Riddell

Foreign Aid Reconsidered

$36.95

A review of the theoretical debates around aid, providing a valuable resource for practitioners and students.

Foreign aid has always been a controversial subject. Roger Riddell provides a rigorous analysis of the criticisms which are made against aid from all parts of the political and ideological spectrum, and examines in depth the moraland theoretical questions that are raised in the debate.

Melissa Leach, Robin Mearns

Lie of the Land

$29.99

Questions the reasoning behind Western images of the environmental destruction taking place in Africa.

This book addresses the issue of how environmental orthodoxies become established, and what the alternative and appropriate approaches for policy-making are. It shows that many of the established orthodoxies are ill-conceived or represent the interests of certain powerful groups.
The editors draw together material from 11 key case studies across the continent which use first hand research in different ecological zones.

Melissa Leach & RobinMearns are Fellows at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex

Published in association with the International African Institute

Ali A. Mazrui

Cultural Forces in World Politics

$36.95

Professor Mazrui, Reith Lecturer and presenter of BBC1's series The Africans, makes us reconsider the realities of power in world politics.

Ali Mazrui argues that the emphasis in world politics continues to be on arms, on resources and on strategic calculations and that the importance of culture has been grossly underestimated. Professor Mazrui's own mind is a cultural cross-roads; he can give Islamic insights to Western audiences about The Satanic Verses; he relates the Beijing Spring to the Palestinian Intifada; he compares the effects of Zionism and Apartheid; he puts together Muhammad, Marx and market forces; and he tells the Americans that their attitude to the Third World is a dialogue of the deaf.

ALI A. MAZRUI was Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies at the State University ofNew York at Binghamton and Senior Scholar in African Studies at Cornell University

Kenya: EAEP

Deborah Bryceson

Liberalizing Tanzania's Food Trade

$36.95

Examines the impact of liberalizing trade in staple food commodities.

The author shows the way grain traders and households in five Tanzanian towns were affected by the Tanzanian government's decision to opt for liberalization in the trade of two staple food crops: rice and maize.

Leroy Vail

The Creation of Tribalism in Southern Africa

$49.95

A collection of studies by key academics on ethnic identity in Africa.

The great virtue of this book is that it is the first major study to focus exclusively on the historical evolution of ethnic identity over a broad region from Zaire ... to South Africa.' - John McCracken, University of Stirling

US & Canada & the Philippines: University of California Press